[OpenIndiana-discuss] 12TB SATA HGST Support

[Stephan Budach]

Hi,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Nikola M" <minikola at gmail.com>
> An: "Handojo via openindiana-discuss" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Juli 2017 10:41:10
> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 12TB SATA HGST Support
> 
> On 07/06/17 07:13 PM, Handojo via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> > Dear OI Users,
> > Anyone of you try to attach 12TB SATA HGST Drives into OI ? Does it
> > work flawlessly ?
> 
> Isn't that like a question for a hardware manufacturer? ;)
> (Yeah I know - if anyone used it on OI/illumos to say something
> etc..)
> 
> Most countries have local laws that allow turning back hardware to
> the
> shop if you figure that it's not what you wanted to buy and get the
> money back if turned back within few days,
> so I one can try it and let us know how it worked. ;)
> 
> It's always good to use some kind of redundancy for drives if one
> values
> it's data, so at least two drives to mirror data or more drives in
> raidz/2/3 for better drive number per usable space ratio.
> These days, with illumos loader being installed by default, one can
> boot
> even from the raidz drives.
> 

Hmm… I'd suspect, that this 12TB is one of those new "archive" drives, isn't it? If yes, I wonder if support for those drives has already landed in Illumos. If yes, it should be of course safe to use them from OI's point of view.